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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 18, 2023 22:54:58 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Seeming like they're doing multiple seasons of updates. There are files for the first story expansion present and it's pretty much entirely focused on the Shirai Ryu and Lin Kuei, and the chapter select menu clearly has free spots for four more acts.
Also seems like from the story leaks Bi-Han becomes Noob again. Guess they're setting up Hanzo becoming the new Sub-Zero? {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Could it be his dead dad? Story spoiler here but... {Spoiler}Seems like a thing where Titan Havik transforms Bi-Han into Noob.
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Post by thegatewaydrug on Sept 19, 2023 18:47:37 GMT -5
The best part of the story mode was seeing old, one-note henchmen / bad guys choose a new destiny and get some development. The obvious examples were Baraka and Reptile. Seeing certain actions still happen - despite the apparent freewill - timeline after timeline is an interesting wrinkle, too. Many are surely just fan service, but fun nonetheless. {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}But they totally washed away the wide open story canvas of the New Era with the multiverse nonsense and having Time Titan Shang Tsung as the outside hand to guide snake oil salesman Shang and day laborer Quan Chi. An infinite timeline battle for Armageddon? Did all other parallel timelines get destroyed then?
The Edenian first family instantly recognizing and embracing King Jerrod's soul overtaking Ermac was also quite jarring and rushed. Did the same thing happen that way in MK: Deception?
Finally, here's a loose thread I haven't seen anyone else address: Does Johnny's wife's name hold any significance? Some 1992 MK comics or trading cards mentioned he has an ex-wife [pre-Sonya] but is Christine Cage Carlton that same lady?
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Post by Scoops on Sept 19, 2023 19:17:36 GMT -5
The best part of the story mode was seeing old, one-note henchmen / bad guys choose a new destiny and get some development. The obvious examples were Baraka and Reptile. Seeing certain actions still happen - despite the apparent freewill - timeline after timeline is an interesting wrinkle, too. Many are surely just fan service, but fun nonetheless. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}But they totally washed away the wide open story canvas of the New Era with the multiverse nonsense and having Time Titan Shang Tsung as the outside hand to guide snake oil salesman Shang and day laborer Quan Chi. An infinite timeline battle for Armageddon? Did all other parallel timelines get destroyed then?
{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} Pretty sure the infinite timelines still exist as shown by Jax and Havik still being alive in the post credit scene. I think they're going to use the other timelines as a way to bring in characters that don't make sense in this one, like Cassie Cage.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Sept 20, 2023 17:37:54 GMT -5
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Post by burdette25159 on Sept 20, 2023 20:43:34 GMT -5
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 20, 2023 23:11:07 GMT -5
So from further combing the datamine it's seeming like... {Spoiler}The mystery female character is in fact Cyrax and also like the T-1000 may also be DLC.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Sept 20, 2023 23:38:18 GMT -5
So from further combing the datamine it's seeming like... {Spoiler}{Spoiler}The mystery female character is in fact Cyrax and also like the T-1000 may also be DLC. {Spoiler}So, three guest characters (T-1000, Conan, Ghostface), three Lin Kuei characters (Noob Saibot, Cyrax, Frost) and then Jade, Cassie Cage and Kung Jin.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 21, 2023 0:22:25 GMT -5
So from further combing the datamine it's seeming like... {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}The mystery female character is in fact Cyrax and also like the T-1000 may also be DLC. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}So, three guest characters (T-1000, Conan, Ghostface), three Lin Kuei characters (Noob Saibot, Cyrax, Frost) and then Jade, Cassie Cage and Kung Jin. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}The one that was thought to be Frost is the one that seems to be Cyrax, seems like the other is Sektor.
Also Cassie, Jade, and Kung Jin are further along in development so they're probably coming first.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 21, 2023 11:48:38 GMT -5
Bit of further digging in the data turned up something that might change the perception on another of them. {Spoiler}The data strings thought to be for Conan are labelled as KO rather than CO, so it's pretty likely it's instead a reimagined Kotal.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Sept 21, 2023 22:30:02 GMT -5
It really is shocking how bad that port looks.
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Post by uewfigfed on Sept 21, 2023 23:45:50 GMT -5
It really is shocking how bad that port looks. Holy hell the comparison makes it look like a 64 game lmfao
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Post by xCompackx on Sept 22, 2023 6:55:21 GMT -5
I'm all for wide access of games, but that's a pretty rough dumbing down for the sake of being able to play MK1 mobile.
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Post by FinalGwen on Sept 22, 2023 6:58:26 GMT -5
I will say that 11 had a big graphical downgrade too that was especially noticeable in the story mode as you went from the cutscenes looking gorgeous transitioning into the clunkier Switch graphics, but the tradeoff was a smooth framerate and the gameplay being spot on. Idk if that's still the case but ultimately I'd rather have a smoother playing game.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 22, 2023 18:48:47 GMT -5
So in news not shocking at all, dumb people are absolutely pissed over the leaks suggesting... {Spoiler}Cyrax is a woman. So guess get ready for that exhausting situation to play out, especially when they actually reveal it.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Sept 22, 2023 20:11:43 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}If you're really mad at a cyborg with virtually no flesh seen anymore being a girl, go touch grass.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 22, 2023 20:12:39 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}If you're really mad at a cyborg with virtually no flesh seen anymore being a girl, go touch grass. {Spoiler}Especially one whose entire established character is, "Would rather not be a cyborg." Cyrax is completely flat, you can really only build on the character.
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Post by Cyno on Sept 22, 2023 20:32:47 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Cyrax is also a codename, not an actual name. It can belong to more than one person. Sub-Zero was both Bi-Han and Kuai Liang. And Scorpion in this timeline is Kuai Liang and not Hanzo (yet). If Frost didn't betray Kuai Liang, I'm guessing she would've succeeded him as Sub-Zero when he retired the name or died.
Cyrax doesn't even have a known real name in either of the first two timelines. The only thing we know about him is that he's originally from Botswana in Africa. Though I'd be interested in seeing if Cyrax in this timeline starts out as a regular Lin Kuei member before being turned into a cyber Lin Kuei by Sektor.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 22, 2023 20:33:48 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Cyrax is also a codename, not an actual name. It can belong to more than one person. Sub-Zero was both Bi-Han and Kuai Liang. And Scorpion in this timeline is Kuai Liang and not Hanzo (yet).
Cyrax doesn't even have a real name in either of the first two timelines. The only thing we know about him is that he's originally from Botswana in Africa. Though I'd be interested in seeing if Cyrax in this timeline starts out as a regular Lin Kuei member before being turned into a cyber Lin Kuei by Sektor. Seems like on that last thing... {Spoiler}They're doing powered armor in this timeline instead of becoming cyborgs.
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Post by CMWaters on Sept 22, 2023 20:34:32 GMT -5
So in news not shocking at all, dumb people are absolutely pissed over the leaks suggesting... {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Cyrax is a woman. So guess get ready for that exhausting situation to play out, especially when they actually reveal it. {Spoiler}For me, it's one way to not think of Cyrax's human form as being played by Kofi Kingston.
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Post by Clutchhausen on Sept 24, 2023 4:05:19 GMT -5
I've been having tons of fun with Baraka and Sektor.
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